Exhibitions

Waste Lands / Tierras devastadas

From September 13, 2018 until December 14, 2018From September 13, 2018 to December 14, 2018 From September 13 to 15, Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. From September 16, Monday through Friday, from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Closed on weekends and holidays.

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Casa Árabe exhibition halls (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). From September 13, 2018 to December 14, 2018 From September 13 to 15, Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. From September 16, Monday through Friday, from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Closed on weekends and holidays. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.

From September through December, Cordoba is hosting this exhibition
curated by Piedad Solans, which includes works by ten women artists from
Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates,
Iran, Morocco, Lebanon and Palestine, showing landscapes and
environments in destroyed, impoverished countries.

The opening ceremony will take place on Thursday, September 13 at 7:30 p.m. and will include the participation of Javier Rosón, the Coordinator of Casa Árabe in Cordoba, and Piedad Solans, the exhibition’s curator. Immediately thereafter, the curator will be giving a guided tour of the exhibition.

“Through the work of ten artists coming from Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Morocco, Lebanon and Palestine, the exhibition deals with the urban, social and archeological landscapes and environments in destroyed countries impoverished by wars, speculation and the predatory voracity of large gas and oil companies, the post-colonial legacy, terrorism and violence by states, as well as the local, political and religious struggles and the hopeless deserts of exile and emigration.

The artists who form part of the exhibition come from different backgrounds following different narratives. Their status is one of subjects at the border: they inhabit crossroads between cultures, languages and multiple far-flung worlds. Through their own memory and that of their peoples, they know about forced migrations, war, exile and alienation as foreigners. However, they refuse to be victims. They question ideological constructs and appropriate the semiotic and cultural codes of Western society for themselves, breaking down the stereotypes and mythologies of colonial Orientalism, with its imaginary, symbolic portrayals of the unknown “other,” between rejection and sublimation. They are more than just survivors: they are female citizens, activists and travelers between borders, who tear down ideological walls. They are political subjects with their own ability to make decisions and express criticism. Their vantage point is not self-referential: it is aimed towards the other, the earth, human communities, the world. They bring up the suffering and poverty which terror and abuses of power cause among the population. They denounce and document the violence and injustice, the pain and solitude of vulnerable people. In their works, they show the potential that art holds as a political, social and reflective tool, as well as the endless capacity for withstanding anything to survive the trauma of history under adverse conditions.”Piedad Solans